Excerpts from an interview with Betty Nixon on 16 June 2004 by Kathryn G. Bennett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Nixon discusses childhood experiences that led to her awareness of segregation and...

A celebration at the Nashville Airport in front of the American Airlines Astojet. Pictured left to right are: Judge Beverly Briley, unidentified man, and Mayor Ben West, celebrating the jet flight out of Nashville on June 11th, 1961. The signage...

A circa 1996 photograph of President Andrew Jackson's Tomb at the Hermitage, the handsome old estate of "Old Hickory," the seventh President of the United States. Andrew Jackson died in 1845 at the Hermitage reaching the age of 77. His burial was...

A letter from Dutch immigrant Peter J. Williamson back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862, Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...

A pamphlet advertising life insurance for soldiers during World War II. The cover graphic portrays a fatherless family standing with Uncle Sam juxtaposed against a mass gathering of soldiers in the background. The inside pages use persuasive...

A photograph of Mrs. Naff standing in front of the ticket booth at the Ryman Auditorium. The building is located at 116 5th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The Ryman Auditorium opened as a tabernacle in 1892, and over the years its venue...

A photograph of the Tennessee Press Association at the meeting held at Jackson, Tennessee in 1893. A few of the attendees are identified in a 1970 typescript letter by Donald Miller, a retired priest of the Episcopal Church who is pictured in this...

A photograph of the Trans World Airlines (TWA) jet at the new airport terminal in Nashville, Tennessee. Improvements included a new terminal building with a modern control tower and Jet Age runways. Nashville's airport officially opened in 1937 as...

A portrait photograph of Elizabeth Burgess Buford, a prominent educator and founder of Buford College, a school for young ladies that was first established in Clarksville, Tennessee in the 1880s and subsequently moved to Nashville in 1901. This...

A postcard of President Andrew Jackson's Tomb. The verso reads: "President Andrew Jackson's Tomb at the Hermitage, situated 12 miles from Nashville, has been called the Mt. Vernon of the South. Through the Ladies' Hermitage Association the handsome...

A published photo from the Nashville Times (1940), celebrating the 92nd birthday of Mrs. Dorsey C. Pierce. Her husband, Dorsey C. Pierce, worked for the Southern Express Company. Forms part of the Nashville Times newspaper collection. 1 digital...

A scene from a December 23rd, 1961 visit by Mayor Ben West and his son Jay West to the Knowles Home during the holiday season. The Knowles (Joseph B.) Memorial Home for Aged People was then located at 1501 23rd Avenue N and Ridley Road NW corner...

A scene from a December 23rd, 1961 visit by Mayor Ben West and his son Jay West to the Knowles Home during the holiday season. The Knowles (Joseph B.) Memorial Home for Aged People was then located at 1501 23rd Avenue N and Ridley Road NW corner...

A scene from a December 23rd, 1961 visit by Mayor Ben West and his son Jay West to the Knowles Home during the holiday season. The Knowles (Joseph B.) Memorial Home for Aged People was then located at 1501 23rd Avenue N and Ridley Road NW corner...

A scene from a December 23rd, 1961 visit by Mayor Ben West and his son Jay West to the Knowles Home during the holiday season. The Knowles (Joseph B.) Memorial Home for Aged People was then located at 1501 23rd Avenue N and Ridley Road NW corner...

A scene from a December 23rd, 1961 visit by Mayor Ben West and his son Jay West to the Knowles Home during the holiday season. The Knowles (Joseph B.) Memorial Home for Aged People was then located at 1501 23rd Avenue N and Ridley Road NW corner...

A scene from a December 23rd, 1961 visit by Mayor Ben West and his son Jay West to the Knowles Home during the holiday season. The Knowles (Joseph B.) Memorial Home for Aged People was then located at 1501 23rd Avenue N and Ridley Road NW corner...

A scene from a dinner at the Colemere Club with entertainer Tommy Sands, circa 1958. Thomas Adrian "Tommy" Sands, a popular teen idol of circa 1950s - 1960s, became an overnight sensation when he appeared on the Kraft Television Theater in January...

A scene from a dinner at the Colemere Club with entertainer Tommy Sands, circa 1958. Thomas Adrian "Tommy" Sands, a popular teen idol of circa 1950s - 1960s, became an overnight sensation when he appeared on the Kraft Television Theater in January...

A scene from a dinner at the Colemere Club with entertainer Tommy Sands, circa 1958. Thomas Adrian "Tommy" Sands, a popular teen idol of circa 1950s - 1960s, became an overnight sensation when he appeared on the Kraft Television Theater in January...